8. Streep acted very Miranda Priestly before accepting the role. Despite already having two Oscar wins and 11 more nominations at that point, Streep had never quite mastered the art of demanding more pay. But this time, she spoke up.
“This offer, while not insulting in my opinion, may not have reflected my actual value to this project,” she explained to Variety. “I had a ‘break-up moment’ and then they doubled their offer. I was 55 years old and had just learned very late how to take care of myself.”
9. She had other demands. Streep, who was wary of turning Miranda into a caricature, insisted on two scenes. One is a scene she calls “The Business of Fashion,” in which the trendsetter coaches Andy to wear a teal sweater, and the other is “the scene where she takes off her armor, the scene where she’s not skinned in the hotel room.”
The gray hair was also her own creation, and Streep appeared with icy hair at a roundtable meeting with studio heads. As director Frankel recalled to EW, “Meryl guided Miranda through that meeting, but there was no conversation about hair at all. They looked Meryl in the eye and said nothing.”
